Compassed can be categorized as a verb.
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| 1. | noun | Within the compass of education. | |
| 2. | noun | Within the compass of this article. | |
| 3. | verb | This writer attempts more than his talents can compass. | |
| 4. | verb | "Hither, where now the walls and fortress high, / of Carthage, and her rising homes are found, / they came, and there full cheaply did they buy, / such space – called Byrsa from the deed – of ground / as one bull's-hide could compass and surround." | |
| 5. | verb | "Now learn, how best to compass my design. / To Tyrian Carthage hastes the princely boy, / prompt at the summons of his sire divine, / my prime solicitude, my chiefest joy, / fraught with brave store of gifts, saved from the flames of Troy." | |
| 6. | verb | "Hither, where now the walls and fortress high, / of Carthage, and her rising homes are found, / they came, and there full cheaply did they buy, / such space – called Byrsa from the deed – of ground / as one bull's-hide could compass and surround." | |
| 7. | verb | "Now learn, how best to compass my design. / To Tyrian Carthage hastes the princely boy, / prompt at the summons of his sire divine, / my prime solicitude, my chiefest joy, / fraught with brave store of gifts, saved from the flames of Troy." |
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| noun | |
| Within the compass of education. |
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| Within the compass of this article. |
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| verb | |
| This writer attempts more than his talents can compass. |
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| "Hither, where now the walls and fortress high, / of Carthage, and her rising homes are found, / they came, and there full cheaply did they buy, / such space – called Byrsa from the deed – of ground / as one bull's-hide could compass and surround." | |
| "Now learn, how best to compass my design. / To Tyrian Carthage hastes the princely boy, / prompt at the summons of his sire divine, / my prime solicitude, my chiefest joy, / fraught with brave store of gifts, saved from the flames of Troy." | |
| "Hither, where now the walls and fortress high, / of Carthage, and her rising homes are found, / they came, and there full cheaply did they buy, / such space – called Byrsa from the deed – of ground / as one bull's-hide could compass and surround." | |
| "Now learn, how best to compass my design. / To Tyrian Carthage hastes the princely boy, / prompt at the summons of his sire divine, / my prime solicitude, my chiefest joy, / fraught with brave store of gifts, saved from the flames of Troy." | |